Integration of real fight shots, from the early bouts to the pummeling Joe took from Schmeling, the triumphant return match and the tragic attempt in 1951 when the aging Louis came out of ...

"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...

His name was Joe Louis. A man Americans called “The Brown Bomber.” He was an African-American man who would go on to claim the hearts and minds of many regardless of skin color, and during a time ...